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petit pâté

petit pâté noun: a small pie or pasty.

Noun

petit pâté (plural petit pâtés or petits pâtés)

  1. A small pie or pasty.
    • There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283
    • With considerable willingness I ate and drank, keeping the petit pâté till the last, as a bonne bouche.1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Forms of petit pâté

pluralpetit pâtés
pluralpetits pâtés

Origin of petit pâté

From Middle French petit (“small”) + pâté (“pie, pasty”).

Questions about petit pâté

What does petit pâté mean?
Petit pâté means a small pie or pasty.
What part of speech is petit pâté?
Petit pâté is a noun.
What is the plural of petit pâté?
The plural of petit pâté is petit pâtés.

Words near petit pâté in the dictionary

  1. petit larceny
  2. petit mal
  3. petit maître
  4. Petit Nevis
  5. petit pois
  6. petit pâté
  7. Petit Saint Vincent
  8. petit sergeanty
  9. petit serjeanty
  10. petit souper
  11. petit treason

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